Hi Tim, I do not know about if there would be licensing concerns. But, we do have TIKA-289 to track merging magic bytes from `file` into Tika.
Tyler On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Ken Krugler <kkrugler_li...@transpac.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I don't believe there's any issue with comparing results. > > If you were looking at the source for "file", then it gets more gray, but > I think even that would be OK as long as you weren't copying code or > directly re-implementing algorithms. > > -- Ken > > > From: Allison, Timothy B. > > Sent: April 22, 2015 5:47:17am PDT > > To: dev@tika.apache.org > > Subject: comparing Tika's file detect with other tools? > > > > Would it be frowned upon to compare Tika's file detection with other > tools, like "file"? Any concerns about effectively reverse engineering > (when we find that Tika is wrong) from a non-Apache project? > > > > Any other sensitivities I should be aware of? > > > > Best, > > > > Tim > > > -------------------------- > Ken Krugler > +1 530-210-6378 > http://www.scaleunlimited.com > custom big data solutions & training > Hadoop, Cascading, Cassandra & Solr > > > > > >
